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Here’s a useful comparison.

The biggest question is, do you think your tax percentage will be higher now, or higher in the future? If you think your income might increase later (placing you in a higher tax bracket), or that the government might increase your tax burden later, then it’s better to pay taxes now.

(D), in case anyone was in doubt. Also:

The Car Privacy Rights Act is cosponsored by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

I mean… what is your threat profile? Are you a LastPass engineer with an unpatched Plex install and access to the company file server? (edit: LastPass not LinkedIn)

Are you going to do something that would attract the attention of law enforcement or nation-state threat actors?

Are you going to be using this mini PC to do your taxes?

Is it going to be in a DMZ with open access to the Internet?

Are you going to use it as an authentication server for other critical assets?

If you aren’t assessing your risk level with some realistic idea of what threats actually apply to you and weighing that against the possible consequences of a breach, then you’re pointlessly worrying about low-probability scenarios. Operational Risk Management right? Judge your risk by probability of occurrence and severity of impact and then make decisions based on that.

This is a constraint designed into bitcoin to produce artificial scarcity so that the volume of tokens doesn’t massively inflate and destroy their value. A blockchain doesn’t have to operate this way if the goal is to produce unique tokens as identifiers rather than as currency.

Only one thing matters to Trump: Trump. Everything and everyone else is disposable.

Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with blockchain technology, but Surprise! the people most interested in unregulated financial systems are thieves and scammers. Who could have guessed.

Q: Is it shut the fuck up Friday?

A: It’s always shut the fuck up Friday.

The plan is to have a plan.

Folding Ideas is basically must-watch content. Dan’s thoughtfulness and thoroughness are unmatched.

Angela Collier goes into detail on physics topics, especially astrophysics. Don’t miss her video on crackpots.

If you’re into 3D printing you should be watching CNC Kitchen. Stefan does a lot of stress-test comparisons between different filaments and printing settings.

Moon Channel has some of the best sociocultural documentaries I’ve seen on YouTube. I particularly recommend Kawaii: Anime, Propaganda, and Soft Power Politics.

Practical Engineering is excellent. Grady is a civil engineer who discusses infrastructure and makes excellent demonstration models like this one on Why Engineers Can’t Control Rivers.

The 8-Bit Guy will teach you things about the early days of digital computers that you didn’t know enough to ask.

Jenny Nicholson does some great reviews of pop culture topics. Her video about Evermore: the theme park that wasn’t is fantastic, as is her review of Disney’s Galactic Cruiser (the Star Wars hotel).

He could probably draw it in with a sharpie.

Er, well, a lot of dogs get shot, but not by immigrants.

In genocide the goal is to kill all the people. The goal of this “mass clearance” is to steal the peoples’ land - whether they die or not isn’t really important, as long as they’re gone.

Class warfare.

Even if the military targets killed by these devices are not considered war crimes, there were several civilians killed and those deaths should be considered war crimes.

The problem with using a weapon like this is that you can’t possibly know who is nearby at the detonation time. To me this seems similar to butterfly mines which have been internationally banned for 2 major reasons:

• they can end up outside the military operation area - they’re light enough that they can be blown off-course while falling, and will float downstream if they land in water
• children pick them up because they look like plastic toys

It seems like the same logic should apply - this weapon is not discriminating enough and is therefore not a legitimate military option.

We’re watching you too.

Now, entertain us, we are bored.

This man is a hazard to global safety and security.

Socialism!

Automation has evolved a huge amount since the 90s

This is true, and we have smaller, lighter and more accurate motors, and fancy tools like machine vision with object identification, and substantially better electronics.

I don’t think it matters. Nothing has changed in food ingredients - they’re squishy, slippery, soft and irregular. If you put just a little too much pressure on a cooked grain of rice it will turn into a two-inch-long smear of starch that other things will stick to, and then you’ve got a little pile of gunk inside your machine. The more complex these machines are the more impossible it will be to keep them clean on the inside.

I remember when this burger making robot was getting a lot of attention (apparently they were “the definition of disruption”). Their restaurant location in Daly City (Creator Burger) closed during the pandemic but then reopened with a simpler version:

Gone from this version of Creator’s robot, however, are the automated toppings like lettuce, tomato and cheese, which humans will now apply to the burger themselves.

Give you one guess why.

The company is now dead, their domain is abandoned and the restaurant location is permanently closed, although apparently they managed to sell one to a Sam’s Club in Arkansas last year. Wonder how that’s going for them now.

Taco Bell tried to do this in the 90s.

This article is light on the details of the failures, but basically the little bits of lettuce, tomato and cheese would slip out of the various holders and get smashed into the moving pieces and jam everything up while starting to rot. It was broken more often than not, and even when it wasn’t it was a pain in the ass to keep sanitary. Far more trouble than it was ever worth.

Building these machines and operating them won’t be the hard part. Keeping them working will be more expensive than paying people to make food for a halfway decent wage. The necessary logistics system just to supply replacement parts for the machines will probably break the bank, and never mind all the technicians they’ll need to make repairs.